... 2005 January 15 . Huygens Images Titan's Surface . Credit: ESA , NASA , Descent Imager/Spectral Radiometer Team ( LPL ) . ... Above are two of the first raw images Huygens recorded of the mystery moon's surface - a view from an altitude of 16 kilometers (left), and surface level . ... In the dramatic surface level vista , the light toned rock-like object below and left of center is only about 15 centimeters across and lies 85 centimeters from the probe. ... About APOD | ...

Supernova 2009js in NGC 918 . This page is devoted to information on Supernova 2009js in NGC 918 . Basic information on this SN, including the last reported brightness, on this Supernova can be found on the main page . Information on the original web pages for many of these images can be found on the updates and links web pages. Discovered independently by Lick Observatory Supernova Search (USA) and Koichi Itagaki (Japan). ... 2009/10/11.44 . 17.2 . ... Joseph Brimacombe . ...

... May 3, 1997 . Giant Cluster Bends, Breaks Galaxy Images . ... Explanation : What are those strange blue objects? Many are images of a single, unusual, beaded, blue, ring-like galaxy which just happens to line-up behind a giant cluster of galaxies. ... The distinctive shape of this background galaxy -- which is probably just forming -- has allowed astronomers to deduce that it has separate images at 4, 8, 9 and 10 o'clock, from the center of the cluster. ... About APOD > . ...

The Nine Planets is best viewed on-line via a graphical WWW browser which displays the pictures in color and supports hypertext link traversal. ... To view the movies and hear the sounds, you'll need additional helper programs. ... I recommend that you use Netscape as your browser. Netscape can display gif and jpeg images directly without need of any additional helper apps. You do need additional helper apps for movies and sounds, however. ... Yahoo's Helper Applications .. ... Tech Help .. ...

Moscow Astronomical Plate Archives: . Contents, Digitization, Current and Possible Applications . ... We describe the astronomical plate archives in Moscow and Zvenigorod and the existing digitization projects. ... 2 The Plate Archive of the Sternberg Institute . The contents of the most important Moscow astronomical plate archive, that of the Sternberg Astronomical Institute, was briefly presented in Shugarov et al. [1] in 1999. ... THE MOSCOW PLATE COLLECTION (STERNBERG INSTITUTE) . ...

... Путеводитель астронома по интернет: . ... Интернет как астрономическая среда . ... Сайты с астрономической библиографией . ... Солнечные сайты . ... Наиболее широко среди них представлены сайты с наблюдениями Солнца. ... http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/ Здесь можно посмотреть как текущие данные, так и архив изображений с этой знаменитой космической обсерватории. ... Известно, что изображения Солнца на разных спектральных диапазонах и просто в различных спектральных линиях очень различны. ...

An Electronic Version of the Second Volume of the General Catalogue of Variable Stars with Improved Coordinates N.N. Samus', V.P. Goranskii, O.V. Durlevich, A.V. Zharova, E.V. Kazarovets, N.N. Kireeva, E.N. Pastukhova, D.B. Williams, and M.L. Hazen, ======================================================================== Astronomy Letters, Vol. ... The main table is presented in the form traditional for the GCVS, i.e., in the order of constellations and variable-star names adopted in the GCVS. ...

... The distance scales of the objects are matched both by comparing the first derivatives of the angular velocity determined separately from radial velocities and proper motions and by the statistical-parallax method. ... Good agreement between the inferred 0 and our calculations based on space velocities suggests that the Lindblad relation holds throughout the entire sample volume. ... Brandt and Blitz (1993) published the distances and radial velocities for a total of 206 H II-regions. ... Astron. ...